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@irawo.bsky.social
they/them | brooklyn | atl

holding hands with the machine

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🔖Keeping a collection of TikTok good bye videos. They are an interesting time capsule of how people feel about this moment.

Hilarious, insightful, nostalgic, fed-up, grateful.
Armchair algorithm ethnography.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTYoebFXS/
January 13, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Have you got a screenshot of an encounter with AI which is unsettling, strange, surprising, laughable or troubling? Still time to submit to our call for screenshots! A selection will be featured in an online publication and workshop. Deadline end of 10th Dec (any time zone): troubling-ai.glitch.me
December 9, 2024 at 11:41 AM
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me and my hojicha iced latte against the world 😪
December 8, 2024 at 1:10 AM
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while i didn't attend the kickoff or the first work sesh, hoping to come to tmr's @leaflet.pub 's 2nd sesh tmr 🫣 im sure everyone is nice? this is what i have so far: a lil zine on living in ny as a socal bean #zine #words #thoughts #digitalZine

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my thoughts on living somewhere new
by me 〰️ selene chang (she/they) | Last Updated 2024.12.03
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December 4, 2024 at 4:03 AM
i feel so proud of the progress i have made with my own design research practice & im having so much fuunn :) i wanna post a bit abt what ideas and concepts iv been building on soon but for now themes of exploration recently have been:

afrofuturism, independent publishing, somatics of dataveillance
December 7, 2024 at 3:22 AM
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Join us for Zine Week with @leaflet.pub!

Next week, Dec 2-6, all online. A few optional calls & async participation welcome :)

Excited to push Leaflet to its creative limits & experiment w/ collaborative publishing ✨📖🍃

Bring ideas; bring friends! Details + RSVP here:

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Leaflet Zine Week!
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November 27, 2024 at 7:40 PM
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most people want a quick and simple answer to why AI systems encode/exacerbate societal and historical bias/injustice and due to the reductive but common thinking of "bias in, bias out," the obvious culprit often is training data but this is not entirely true

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November 24, 2024 at 4:26 PM
meeting all the zinesters in my grad building 🤩 i love collaboration and building creative relationships, so fulfilling to my spirit
November 20, 2024 at 8:59 PM
in the past month i have transformed my relationship with poetry as a medium, i've found that through it, i can expose more of my spirit

particularly as a person who has a bad habit of intellectualizing my feelings, it offers space to pour out my soul
November 19, 2024 at 4:35 PM
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"does bluesky have drafts" no but we have kindness. we have friendship. we know love. we know how to see the world in a grain of sand, and heaven in a wildflower. we know how to hold infinity in the palm of my hand, and eternity in an hour.
November 19, 2024 at 12:38 AM
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i study surveillance w/ communities of ppl who don’t know what the hell ML means or is, but can speak to the experience of having “eyes” on them 24/7 & I think this is fr important but for some reason isn’t always considered essential knowledge in tech studies bc of the lack of technical language
November 16, 2024 at 11:10 PM
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I have spent a life pondering the question, what is a just society? My best answer: One that treats every human life with dignity. This begs so many questions, some of which @eryk.bsky.social probes here. If nothing else AI forces us to ponder why humanity matters.
It's imperfect, but I've done my best to clumsily articulate a response to what's coming, to think through the politics of noise & the desire for filters and how it leads to the desire for the clarity of cruelty.
Resist the Coarse Filter
I feel that the dormant goodwill in people needs to be stirred. People need to hear that it makes sense to behave decently or to help others, to place common interests above their own, to respect the ...
mail.cyberneticforests.com
November 17, 2024 at 1:21 PM
i am destined to live a slow life of ritual, practice, and chasing curiosities
November 15, 2024 at 5:49 AM